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7 Thursday, January 22, 1959 V THE CLINTON CHRONICLE FARMS... AND FOLKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT! County Agent Willis of Chester field says: “Three communities in the county are doing a wonderful work in the Community Develop ment Program.” This important work is statewide. In this changing agriculture, and with the changing rural population, community development came as a must. For the rural church, the rural school, and the old rural com munities are dwindling so. And to let them go would take the very bedrock from under our rural life and be a blow to the nation. This concerted action in all coun ties is headed up by Clemson’s M. H. Sutherland, who tells me of pleasing progress in many a county. I’ve met with some of the commu nity groups and saw the potential leadership that’s being developed. These interested groups are revi talizing many a community over the state and rebuilding out there a lot of the tarnished, enduring values. The church, the school, the home, recreation, and the like show the difference when this transfusion of By J. M. Eleazer Ctemson College Information Specialist - (typ tdifift'XiA t Office Hours 9-5:30 200 South Broad St. * PHONE 658 DR FRED E. HOLCOMBE new ideas and re-dedications enter any community. Not so much help from the outside either Many a run-down community is pulling it self up by its bootstraps and making it again a place where proud people live. * • * - ^ROWING BABY FOOD In our growing economy, there’s always something new coming along. Usually it makes a new call for workers, a new product is born, and we live better because of it. Listen to County Agent Martin of Spartanburg: “Indications are Spartanburg county farmers will set several hundred acres to pears, peaches, and plums for sale to the Gerber Baby Food Company that’s locating across the line in North Carolina.” They have been shipping a lot of peaches up East for that purpose for some years. But now that this company is putting one of its can. rung plants down here, the Spartan burg folks are branching out to help more of its diverse needs. They need the products. The farm ers need the new crops. * * * LOOK OUT! There use to be not many things that could hit you and hurt you. A cotton gin was the most dangerous thing we had. Not many folks were exposed to it. But a surprising num ber of those who were, lost a limb or their life. In fact, among the old- timers when I was coining along, you saw a good many men with one leg. Usually it had been lost in the war. And you saw a goodly num ber with one arm. Usually that had been lost in a gin. Many had been killed in both cases. But these are the ones that survived. Then to be kicked by a mule or horse was one of the old dangers. But we learned through tradition to stay away from their heels. So that danger didn't take many lives nor leave many cripples. Cutting down trees was another danger of old. But there, too, we learned to look and keep out of the way. Those dangers have largely gone. But others have come with the new day The machine is killing and maiming at an alarming rate. This is so unnecessary. They have their danger points. We need to learn and heed them, as wc did the heels of the mule. Com pickers are just coming in our state. They are perhaps greater potential killers than the gins were for more folks have ’em and work with ’em. I know of one picker a farmer got in Sumter county'last fall. Before the season was over it Jiad taken an arm from the hired man and a foot from the farmer’s son. Machines are not necessarily dan gerous. We just disregard their dan ger spots and get hurt. It should be written ia box car tetters all over a corn picker to never touch it with out cutting off the power. And on the highway, too! To paraphrase a famous safety slogan, a wag has said: “Slow down, the life you save may be mine.” « « • BOYS ARE THAT WAY There was an old saying around in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork, where I was raised, to this effect: “The Lord takes care of fools and children.” Surely the last part of that must be true, or few of our crowd would have escaped. For 20 years now I’ve been teUing you one of these true tales of boyhood every week. That figures over a thousand. And many of them were dangerous, and could have easily taken a hfe. But, thanks be, none ever did. I have a few marks. But none of 'em ever got me. And ours was the average experience, when we were coming along, I would think. Many folks tell me of similar ones of theirs. Winter now reminds me of frozen trees. Occasionally we'd have a big frette, with heavy ice all over ev erything. R ia then we'd steal off down in the back pasture, where scattered pines were alwayf com ing and strangling out what little graas might have come there. We’d sharpen the axe first. That waa hard to do, as the water would freeze on the grindstone But we’d pour hot water on it until we got a razor sharp edge on that axe. Those scattered pines were well limbed and would collect a great burden of ice that made them bow their heads almost to the ground. A few of them snapped off. But the others are where we had our fun. One resounding whack with the axe and a six inch, 30 foot pine would pop almost like a pistol and crash to the ground. The frozen wood was brittle and most of the limbs shat tered on the ground in a pile of ice. One day I whacked a Dent and burdened pine that was either too big or I didn’t cut it deep enough. It popped all right, but didn’t snap off. The cut pan of it peeled off and straightened out by my head, knock ing my hat 30 or 40 feet in the air. If that thing had hit me there’d have been no head left. Sure, I believe the old saying quoted above. Hudgins Takes Over Laurens Commission Duties On April 1 Laurens—John M. Hudgins will take over as superintendent of the Laurens Commission of Public Works April 1, it was dec died by the conunssioners at a meeting Tuesday night. Supt. C. P. Townsend will retire on that date, but he told the group “that I will act in an advisory ca pacity if I am needed.” Mr. Hudgins had been named by the commssioners to serve as as sistant superintendent under Mr. Townsend when.the latter announc ed his intentions to retire some months ago: The commission operates the Laurens city electric and water plants. Thrifty Shoppers The Chronicle BEFORE THEY BUY Mr. Merchant Your Local Paper is Way Out in Front WHEN IT COMES TO GIVING YOU THE MOST FOR YOUR AD VERTISING MONEY—THAPS US! SMART SHOPPERS MAKE IT THEIR THRIFTY RULE TO MARKET BY “THE CHRONICLE” ADS. DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR YOU GET GREATER VALUE IN YOUR WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN TERMS OF: ♦CIRCULATION ♦COVERAGE ♦READERSHIP ♦FLEXIBILITY ♦IMPACT ♦SALES • ■ j The Clinton Chronicle Episcopal Bishop Here To Conduct Confirmation Service The Right Reverend C. Alfred Cote, D.D., Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina, made his annual visitation to All Saints Church on Sunday, January 18. * ' The second offee of Institution was read by the minister, the Rev. Giles Lewis, following which five canddates were presented the Bish op for Confirmation. Confirmation is the apostilic rite of the Laying- on-of-Hands as described in the eighth chapter of Acts whereby per sons are made communicants of the church. The persons confirmed were Mr. and Mrs. Jack O. Durant, Miss Mary Bart Stump, Johnny Glover and Jimmy Sullivan. Following the services the vestry of the church joined the Bishop, Mr. Lewis, and the vestry of the Church of the Epihany of Laurens for din ner at the home of Mr. and Mrs Harold Goiter in Laurens. ,y Others attending from Clinton were Dr. Edgar N. Sullivan, Dr. James Macdonald, Bailey Dixon, Dr. Newton Jones and Dr. A. B. Stump Examinations Halt BasketbH Ply At Presbyterian Cotleg^ Pre*yterian College cagers, in the midst of a 12-day mid-season “break,” concentrated this week on final examinations completing! the first semester’s academic wort. After second semester registration next week, the Blue Hose wW re sume court action by playing hosty to the strong Furman quintet next Thursday night Two other home games are scheduled to follow this one ‘ for the Hosemen ,who have played in Clinton just twice thus far. Presbyterian fans hope the pre dominantly home-game slate will bring better results in the ctosin half of the schedule. Nine games date have found the PC cagers win ning four and losing five. They broke even in two Little Four contests last week before entering exams, defeating Erskine but losing to New berry. > Boyette Graduates From Army School; Stationed In Alaska Army Specialist Four William E. Boyette, 20. son of Mr and Mrs Luther A. Boyette, Rt 1, Clinton, recently was graduated from the 9th Infantry Non-Commissiomd Of ficer Academy in Alaska Specialist Boyette received re fresher training in map reading, military leadership, and tactics. In Alaska sinofOctdber .1967, he is regularly stationed at Eielson Air Force Base as a medical aktman in the Infantry's Headquarters Company Boyette entered the Army in May. 1967. and completed basic training at Fort Beming, Ga. In civilian! life he worked at the Clinton Cotton Mill r Bill Would Allow Moving Records Columbia—Legislation authorizing the Laurens County probate judge to move certain c4d records from his office has been introduced in the General Assembly The bill, offered by Laurens Sen |ator Robert C. Wasson, would per tain to homestead exemptions and claims for dower. It would permit storage of the records elsewhere in the county court bouse. I E. R. WELCH Laurens—Edgar Roy Welch, 57, of 1301 Greenwood Rd., died late last Tuesday night at his home after an illness of two years. He was born in Augusta. Ga.. the son of the late William B. and Lucy Ann Rabun Welch, and had made his home in Laurens for many years. He was a member of the First Methpdist Church of Laurens. Funeral services were conducted Thursday at Kennedy Mortuary Chapel at 11 a. m. by the Rev. Vic tor R. Hickman Burial was in Sun set Hill Cemetery at North Augusta. WILLIAM W. SMITH Laurens—W'ilham Walter Smith, 74, of 821 South Harper St., died Saturday morning at his residence after an illness of several months. He was a retired textile worker. He was born in Colleton County, the son of the late Sam W. and Julia Ann Dubois Smith. He was a mem ber of Penile Baptist Church. Funeral services were conducted from the Kennedy Mortuary chapel at 3:00 p m., Sunday, by the Rev. Grange S. Cothran and Dr. Robert S. Cooper. Burial was in Forest lawn cemetery. , FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 24th day of February, 1969, I will render a final account of my acts and doings as Executrix of the estate of Sam Fleming, deceased, in the office of the Judge of Probate of Laurens County, at 10 o’clock a. m., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as Execu- trxi. Any person indebted to said es tate is notifed and required to make payment on or before that date; and all peraons having claims against said estate will present them on or before said date, duly proven, or bo forever barred AM IE FLEMING. Exoeutnx. 104 S Stoaa SI, CVmtm. t C. January IS. 196* «r F-12 JOIN ^ THE MOTHERS’ MARCH ponds were bulk by fanners in the county during the past year There are now more than 300 farm ponds in the county with'approximately 600 surface acres of water. Practically all of these ponds have been stock ed with b.i. - a d bluegills furnished ; by th« l B. FiM and Wildlife Srr j vice Wh»-n ponds are properly -.tocknd and fertilized ’they pro luce good (Vshmy in adrhtnn to iuppfying wa aldn, recreation t#v for Stock UTlga anr) wher im- r tr 4 t . '[a Op TOWARD I—fin GREATER — 1 U | VICTORIES THE MARCH OF DIMES Conservation Notes By h B. O’DEIX, Censervatlmtst J B Hunter, Charles D Little, and W. M. Ferguson, all coopera tors of the Laurens Soil Conserva tion District, comptjtod the con struction of stock watering ponds on their farms just before the close of the year. The ponds were built with cost-sharing assistance from the local Agricultural Conservation Program office. Technicians of the Soil Conser vation Service helped the farmers select the sites, make the necessary surveys and designs to insure prop er location and construction. ' Thirty stock watering ponds, five irrigation ponds and nine other Some 20 nod , i*< ■■edlings were planii-d on mx frirm- in the Cross Hill and Waterloo set-tions of the county l«i>t week by tV district four tree planter An average of from forty to fifty cres per farm •ser< .jl.mted all maaT the ■Soi'i Bank and ACP cos? sharing pro ^rams Jake K.if-or >f Crows Hill, had the largest number planted—68.000, dr close l«» loo hiyidn-d acres, planted to trees on his farm Aproximatiey l 1 ? million loblolly pine seedlings are scheduled for planting by the district's tree plant i mg .service during the next two months Cotton s lost acreage is ! fast going to trees and grass in Lau ren county Wildlife Protector Visit Clinton diopter TV < hnUm chtgiter of the Souir Carol ru Wildlife .Federation wall meet Tuesday evening. January 27, at 7 30 at *ne Mary l-ou Ranch Harold V Steel of Columha fed er.J wild life protector U S De- par* mer4 qf the Interior, will atteul and *hr»w ,j Mm, ‘ Behind the At lantic Flyaway, which shows duck flights from the Artie circle breed >g grounds to their winter no me m he mrtith Mr Steel will also derr. '•nstr-te duck calls for hunters FOR V 1 Heating Service CALL BENJAMIN PHONE 117 or 5% IF YOU DONT *EAD THE CHRONICLE YOU DONT GET THE NEWS PHONE 74 Dr. David T. Mixon —Optometrist— 201 N. Broad Street PHONE 130* | Office Hourw: 9-5 -.j SAVINGS -AT- PIGGLY WIGGLY Dixie Crystal SUGAR (LIMIT: One With $5 < 5 Lb. Bag ’ >r More Grocery Order) I* Sunbeam Tender Crust BREAD Loaf 10< Stokely’s PING 46 Oz. , A Cans 1J 00 VAN CAMP'S PORK A 2—300 Out* BEANS 25< ('base A Sanborn Instant Big 5 Or. Jar COFFEE 98< BLUE RIBBON LONG GRAIN RICE 3 Lb Bog 4 »9< TENDER SLICED BEEF LIVER » : 19c FRESH GROUND LB. BEEF 49c YELLOW Onions LB. 10< FRESH AS MORNING DEW COLLARDS n™* 15c Good-N-Rich White, Yellow, Devils Food CAKE MIXES >»10< TASTE-O-SEA FISH STICKS 3 pks 1,00 MEDIUM REG. 49c CLAXTON Reg. fl.75 Fruit Cakes 3.75 Walnuts u>. 39c —M bile THev